Piers Morgan has denied ordering any illegalhacking when he was editor of London’s Daily Mirrortabloid—but now the paper is being sued by somewho claim otherwise.Sven-Göran Eriksson, former coach of the Englishnational football team; retired football player GarryFlitcroft; actress Shobna Gulati; and AbbieGibson, who used to work as a nanny for DavidBeckham’s family, have filed suit against TrinityMirror, claiming that reporters from the company’spapers hacked their voice-mail accounts.“There might not be a documentary smoking gun,but we will show there is a smoking bullet, theconsequence of the actions,” an attorney for thegroup, Mark Lewis (who also represented plaintiffswho sued News of the World parent NewsInternational over hacking), told Britain’s SkyNews.What did Rupert Murdoch just apologize toHugh Grant for?The lawsuit, filed with London’s High Court, allegesthat the hacking took place while Morgan was editor, between 1995 and 2004.Trinity Mirror, which puts out the Daily Mirror, theSunday Mirror and The People, has previously denied engaging in the sort of behavior that tripped up thenow-defunct News of the World after more than acentury in business.Testifying at a government inquiry into hacking lastyear, Morgan denied every ordering staffers toillegally acquire information.Heather Mills slames Piers Morgan’s phone-hacking denial “It doesn’t necessarily follow that listening tosomeone else talking to someone else is unethical,”he replied when grilled over how he obtainedrecordings of Paul McCartney’s ex-wife, HeatherMills.In May, meanwhile, BBC presenter Jeremy Paxmantold a media ethics panel that Morgan taught himhow to hack a mobile’s voice-mail accounta decade ago—and Paxman told a story that involved Morgan teasing another TV personality about a conversation she had with Sven-Göran Eriksson.“I don’t know if he was making this up, making upthe conversation,” Paxman told the panel. “But it was clearly something he was familiar with and I wasn’t. I didn’t know that this went on.”